Olivia Paschal

Dec 7, 2024 | nybooks.com | Willa Glickman |Olivia Paschal

Hurricane Helene devastated the southeastern United States when it hit in early October—killing about 230 people and causing over $50 billion in damages—particularly in North Carolina. “Those with financial resources may be able to rebuild,” writes Olivia Paschal in a November 3, 2024, essay for the NYR Online.

Nov 3, 2024 | nybooks.com | Olivia Paschal

When the Tug River flooded in the spring of 1977, it swept away thousands of homes in the rural Tug Fork Valley, across parts of Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and Tennessee. Years later, residents would recall that the emergency response was lackluster. In the pre-FEMA era, the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) were left to manage the federal disaster response and find homes for displaced people.

Oct 17, 2024 | facingsouth.org | Olivia Paschal

Dr. Paul Ortiz, a professor of labor history at Cornell’s ILR School and a former board member of the Institute for Southern Studies, joined the Southern Labor Studies Association’s Working History podcast to discuss the history of higher education labor organizing in Florida and Dr. Ortiz’s work in higher education labor organizing.

Sep 9, 2024 | portside.org | Alice Driver |Olivia Paschal

Lives on the Line: An Interview With Alice Driver Published September 9, 2024 Alice Driver’s book Life and Death of the American Worker comes out on September 3. Click here to purchase it on Bookshop.org. Reporter Alice Driver’s new book “The Life and Death of the American Worker” is an accounting of the lives and working conditions faced by poultry and meatpacking workers in Arkansas, where Tyson Foods is headquartered.

Sep 6, 2024 | truthdig.com | Olivia Paschal

This story was originally published by History News Network. The ascension of Ohio Senator JD Vance from, as he was dubbed by much of the American media, white working class-whisperer author of Hillbilly Elegy to Donald Trump’s 2024 nominee for vice president has made him a standard-bearer of a rising brand of illiberal, antidemocratic conservatism that has quickly built visible power on the American right. Few of Vance’s politics are truly new.